During Climate Summit, Indigenous Peoples Intercept Soy Barges on the Tapajós River and Demand the End of the Ferrogrão Railway | Amazon Watch
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The peaceful protest was a powerful statement from Indigenous and traditional communities about the impacts of Brazil’s grain export corridors on rivers, fisheries, territories, and local livelihoods.

While world leaders debate climate policy in Belém (PA), more than 300 Indigenous people and allies from social movements held the 8th Ancestral Cry on the Tapajós River, in the Lower Tapajós region of western Pará. The peaceful action took place within Tupinambá Territory, inside the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve, and included a symbolic occupation of cargo barges, protesting against the expansion of the Arco Norte waterway system and the proposed Ferrogrão railway (EF-170).

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